Kno Brings Out "First Ever" Single-Screen Tablet Textbook

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Blackberry’s coattails…now boarding! The folks out at Kno put out their own announcement of a single-screen tablet following the announcement of RIM’s PlayBook, but Kno is taking a slightly different tack with theirs: they’re calling it the “world’s first single screen tablet textbook”.

And they might be, I suppose, assuming you don’t use any of the other single screen tablets out there as textbooks. Anyway, it’s set to support course materials, note taking, digital media, and more, along with the first feature that students will be likely to misuse, Web access.

It’s got storage space sufficient to hold eight textbooks (which, if you’ve seen some textbooks, is no small feat) as well as having a battery that will last “a full day on campus”, which is about as vague as you can get without throwing in the phrase “you know”. I had some “full days” that lasted about an hour and a half.

There’s no word on pricing–the best I can find is the suggestion that it’ll run “under $1000″, but there’s 999 numbers under that. Pre-order information will be forthcoming later on.